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Shayna Steele
Shayna Steele
	Shayna performing in New York City
Background information
Birth name	Shayna Donnell Steele
Also known as	Shayna Steele and Shayna Cook
Born	September 23, 1975 (age 49); Sacramento, California
Genres	Soul; blues; jazz;
Occupations	Singer; songwriter; stage actress;
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Highyella Lowbrown Music
Website	shaynasteele.com

Shayna Steele (born September 23, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter and a Broadway stage actress.

Career

Steele's Broadway credits include Rent at the Nederlander Theatre, the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Foxwoods Theatre (formerly the Ford Center for the Performing Arts), and the original Broadway cast of Hairspray, in which she played a member of the girl group The Dynamites. She went on to appear in Hairspray Live!, broadcast on December 7, 2016.

Steele sings background vocals for Bette Midler in "The Showgirl Must Go On" in Las Vegas.^[1] She has also performed on several albums, including Moby's Hotel,^[2] and Moby's single "Disco Lies", which reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play list. In 2004, Steele released her first self-titled EP^[3] and in 2009 released her first album, I'll Be Anything.^[4] In 2011, Steele was hired to sing background vocals for Rihanna on her Australian tour of Last Girl on Earth.^[5] She toured again with Rihanna on her North American and European "LOUD" tour starting on June 4, 2014, in Baltimore, Maryland,^[6] as a background vocalist.